aFrInaTi0n Posted March 6 Posted March 6 Hello Eurobricks community! Posting images is one of the best ways to share your creations on Eurobricks. This guide is intended to help members understand how to link and embed pictures from popular hosting platforms, while also outlining a few simple recommendations that help keep topics easy to view for everyone. The generic guidelines can be found in this first post, the platform specific guides can be found in the second post of this topic. General Image Guidelines Before posting images from any hosting platform, please keep these recommendations in mind: For all platforms please take care of images being in a public folder for embedding to work. Recommended display size Please link images at approximately 1024px on the longest side. Larger images slow down page loading and can make topics difficult to browse. Most image hosts allow you to select or generate a 1024px version. Embed images, not full-resolution originals Always try to use fitting resized versions when embedding images. Full-resolution images can still be available through your external gallery. Gallery links are encouraged If you have many images, embed a few highlights in your post. Then provide a nicely formatted link to the full gallery. Recommended Post Structure A good post usually combines a few embedded images with a gallery link. Example layout: Spoiler Quote Here is my latest build! IMAGE_URL_1 IMAGE_URL_2 IMAGE_URL_3 Full gallery with additional photos: GALLERY_LINK This keeps topics clean and easy to browse while still allowing members to explore the full image set. Image posting Spoiler If you would like to paste image urls to be shown in your post, just paste the URL and it will get rendered. Alternatively you can use the "Other media" button in the bottom of the reply text field: Image Linking Spoiler If you would like to paste image urls to be shown as textual links, use the "URL" Button in the editor bar: A dialog will pop up to allow you to enter the URL and an optional text: Summary For the best experience on Eurobricks: Use ~1024px images for embedding Avoid posting very large full-resolution images Embed a selection of images Feel free to provide a link to the full gallery Following these guidelines helps keep the forums fast, readable, and enjoyable for everyone
aFrInaTi0n Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 General Recommendations for platforms Every user is free to pick the platform he likes the best. We recommend bigger providers for allowing the images to stay online in the future. We can currently recommend Flickr, Bricksafe and Brickshelf. Platform Status for Registration and Upload of Images Eurobricks ⛔ We are not offering file hosting. Flickr (https://www.flickr.com) ✅ Allows registrations ✅ Upload limit of 999 files with the free plan. ✅ Allows folders ✅ Easy resizing of large images to fit our 1024px limits. Bricksafe (https://bricksafe.com/) ⛔ New registrations are not allowed any longer ✅ 10GB space limit per account. ✅ Allows folders ✅ Easy resizing of large images to fit our 1024px limits. Brickshelf (https://www.brickshelf.com/) ✅ Allows registrations ✅ No limit for files with the free plan known. ✅ Allows folders ⛔No easy resizing of large images to fit our 1024px limits. Please keep in mind we can not give any support for the external providers, instead we would encourage you to approach their support for issues with their platforms. Posting Images from Flickr Spoiler Flickr offers several image sizes and makes it easy to obtain a correctly sized image. Open the image on Flickr. Click the Download icon and select "View all sizes". Choose a size close to 1024px (usually "Large"). Right click the image shown and select "Copy Image address". You can paste the the URL from your clipboard directly into your post. Posting Images from Bricksafe Spoiler Bricksafe is widely used within the LEGO community and provides direct image links. Browse to the image in your Bricksafe folder. in the thumbnail overview there are different resolutions offered when you hover over the image with your mouse. Make sure the image resolution is around 1024px. You can paste the the URL from your clipboard directly into your post. Posting Images from Brickshelf Spoiler Brickshelf is an older hosting platform and has recently allowed new users and uploads again. Open the image in your Brickshelf gallery. Click the image to open the full-size view or right click the Link below the image to select "Copy link address". You can paste the the URL from your clipboard directly into your post. We hope this guide helps users to share their images with us. If there are any further questions, please reach out to us in the Help Topic. Please mention our staff if this guide is not considered valid for any of the mentioned external providers, as their websites may change over time. Time of writing / last updating the guide: 7th March 2026
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